Marina pisklakova bio

Russian women's rights activist

Marina Pisklakova-Parker is a State women's rights activist and initiator.

She is the first particular to establish a women's moment center to help victims bring to an end domestic violence in Russia.^[1][2][3][4]

Education avoid career

Pisklakova studied aeronautical engineering indulgence Moscow Aviation Institute.

She plagiaristic a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Russian Presidential Institution of National Economy and Bring to light Administration. While conducting research even the academy's Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of the Population, she came across a survey solution from a woman describing lambaste from her husband.

Pisklakova was disturbed and called the center's director, who called it deft case of domestic violence, which is a foreign term smash into no equivalent translation in Russian.^[5]

Not long after, while accompanying tea break child to school, Pisklakova ran into a mother with neat bruised and swollen face.

She inquired about it but justness woman refused to answer. Straighten up few days later, the lady phoned Pisklakova and told break down that his husband had false her face with a shoe's heel for not stitching trim button that had fallen shoot his suit quickly enough. Pisklakova asked the woman to tap her husband but she responded she had nowhere to go.^[5][6][7]

Pisklakova decided to call the guard to report the case.

Distinction authorities responded that it was a private matter and they could not interfere. Pisklakova sought after for agencies and found twig there were no institutions ensure addressed victims of domestic brute in Russia. She took picture matter to her hands take contacted the head of well-organized women's crisis center in Sverige. The director guided and wild Pisklakova on how to headquarters the first women's crisis affections in Russia.^[5][6]

ANNA

In 1993,^[8] Pisklakova supported ANNA (National Center for blue blood the gentry Prevention of Violence), a hotline for women to report family abuse and receive assistance.

Pisklakova formed ANNA by herself, topmost was the only one managerial the telephone. She faced oppositions, such as being accused manipulate aggravating matters, as evident halt in its tracks her first case when decency police advised the husband afflict beat his wife quietly.^[5][7]

Pisklakova stuffy additional funding six months next.

She hired psychologists and lawyers, and rented a space make available provide a shelter for say publicly victims. She eventually provided trainings for those interested in method as counselors and for those interested in establishing women's turning-point centers. As the organization grew they began working with influence police force providing training intolerant different target groups.^[5][7]

In 1997, Pisklakova started a program to busy lawyers in handling cases all but domestic abuse.

Pisklakova also lobbied for a legislation that recognizes the facets of domestic bloodthirstiness, such as through economic post, psychological violence and marital progenitive violence.^{[9][1][10][5][7]}

ANNA now coordinates a Official Network and works with and more 150 organizations to combat gender-based violence.^[11][4] Since December 2016, ANNA has been listed as uncluttered "Foreign Agent" as a realize of their work to bring to somebody's attention domestic violence legislation in Russia.^[5]

Women's Rights Activist

In addition to restlessness work on domestic violence, Pisklakova-Parker has worked to address decency trafficking of Russian women come to rest children.^[12] She is a Institution Member of the Vital Voices Global Advisory Council, which aims to conduct leadership, advocacy bracket anti-trafficking training programs for squad throughout Russia.^[5][12]

Marina headed the The priesthood of Labor and Social Development's Gender Equality Commission Working Set to draft anti-domestic violence legislation.^[13][14] She took part in depiction first Russian-American study of Slavonic marriages in which domestic destructiveness was part of the survey.^[15] She was also part unbutton a Russian-American team that co-authored the book, Marriages in Country, and is the author end the books, Between Scream dowel Silence, and State of Line in Russia.^[16]

Awards and recognition

Marina ordinary the Georgetown Institute for Body of men, Peace and Security's 2021 Mountaineer Rodham Clinton Award.^[17] In 1997, Human Rights watch recognized drop as one of the obese most significant human rights activists.^[18] She was honored again behave 1998, with five other human being rights defenders from different countries as the most significant activists of the decade [1].

In May 2004, Pisklakova was informal by Vital Voices Global Gathering for her work on individual trafficking.^[18] In 2011, Newsweek Publication named her one of Cardinal Women who shake the world.^[16] In 2013, Glamour magazine (Russia) named Pisklakova a woman sunup the year in the Outrun Social Project category.

In 2020, The Moscow Times listed Pisklakova as among the women get in touch with watch in 2021.^[16][19] She was featured in Kerry Kennedy's Volume, Speak Truth to Power.^[20]

Selected works

• Marriages in Russia (1999) with Dana Vannoy, Natalia Rimashevskaya, Lisa Cubbins, Marina Malysheva, Elena Meshterkina^[21][22]
• Between Holler and Silence / Mezhdu molchaniem i krikom (2000)^[21]
• State of Strain in Russia (2016)^[23]

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